Amazon S3 has been mentioned before and it's cheaper then all comparable offers. (For typical personal use (<< 100GB) S3 is pretty affordable.) With JungleDisk, a commercial (US$20) client, encrypted backups are trivial.
If you want to beat Amazon's pricing you probably need a good friend working at some large data center.
The results of the study are based on data obtained from comScore's worldwide database of 2 million people who have provided comScore with explicit permission to monitor their online behavior.
Would you say the average internet users gives a company the right to record anything they do online including details of online purchases? The average radiohead fan, the average music customer? Come on, those numbers cannot be realistic.
If they had interviewed 2M internet users about whether they know about inrainbows.com and what they paid that would have been a decent survey. If the recorded the sites people visit and then asked those who where on inrainbows.com, dito.
However, their business seems to be based on violation of user's privacy and computing security, which is inacceptable for any sane user, especially for those who shop online. Their numbers say nothing about us sane people.
Do they pay their data contributors? This is more attractive when you have less money (i.e. probably won't pay for sth. you can get for free).
Don't get me wrong. I don't critize comScore generally. I don't know anything about how they work. I just feel that this particular data cannot possibly be collect that way.
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Amazon S3 has been mentioned before and it's cheaper then all comparable offers. (For typical personal use (<< 100GB) S3 is pretty affordable.) With JungleDisk, a commercial (US$20) client, encrypted backups are trivial.
If you want to beat Amazon's pricing you probably need a good friend working at some large data center.
Would you say the average internet users gives a company the right to record anything they do online including details of online purchases? The average radiohead fan, the average music customer? Come on, those numbers cannot be realistic.
If they had interviewed 2M internet users about whether they know about inrainbows.com and what they paid that would have been a decent survey. If the recorded the sites people visit and then asked those who where on inrainbows.com, dito.
However, their business seems to be based on violation of user's privacy and computing security, which is inacceptable for any sane user, especially for those who shop online. Their numbers say nothing about us sane people.
Do they pay their data contributors? This is more attractive when you have less money (i.e. probably won't pay for sth. you can get for free).
Don't get me wrong. I don't critize comScore generally. I don't know anything about how they work. I just feel that this particular data cannot possibly be collect that way.
The list misses Pivot and all those Blosxom variants and many others. You have plenty of choice.
work at the Interoperability Lab in Cambridge. The bad ones still work in Redmond on other goals.